St. Bernard School Board to hold hearing on new district lines

The St. Bernard Parish School Board has scheduled a public hearing on the new school district lines in an effort to gain public input regarding new student attendance zones for Arabi, Chalmette, Lacoste and Joseph Davies elementary schools.

By opening the new Lacoste Elementary School in Chalmette in August, the St. Bernard School Board hopes to reduce overcrowding at the parish's other three public elementary schools by re-establishing attendance boundaries.

“Our parents have been wonderfully patient with us as we have opened new schools almost every year since the storm, and, of course, that means new attendance zones,” said Superintendent of Schools Doris Voitier. “This should be the last move that families will have to make for quite a while as our rebuilding program is nearing completion."